Steven on December 1st, 2009

Featured song: Home by Michael Card, from his 1994 album, poiema.
My first semester of college was exciting to me. It was an adventure in which I was eager to participate. It was to be on my own, to be an “adult.” Yet, by the time a month had passed, I was so homesick I could [...]

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Steven on November 26th, 2009

Featured song: Thank You by Ray Boltz, from his 1988 album of the same name.
Today is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. The origin of the holiday is profoundly Christian; giving thanks to God by some of the first white settlers to this country for His favor in surviving a first, hard winter in a [...]

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Steven on September 11th, 2009

Featured song: Met In The Stairwell, written by Stacey Randall, read by Bob Holiday, from late 2001.
Eight years ago today, our world was changed profoundly. By the actions of some very lost men with a very great hatred, many lives were taken in a tragedy that affects us still today.
As an adult, I had not previously experienced a [...]

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Steven on August 31st, 2009

Featured song, The Land Of Oohs And Ahs by Reba Rambo, from her 1977 album Reba Lady.
Unless you have the misfortune to have not experienced one of the great American traditions of the past 70 years, you should have seen at least once the classic MGM movie, The Wizard Of Oz. According the Wikipedia article [...]

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